(Headline USA) Opening statements are scheduled Monday in the bribery trial of Nadine Menendez, whose prison-bound husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, complained she was being treated unfairly by Manhattan federal prosecutors.
Nadine Menendez, 58, was originally scheduled to go to trial last year along with the 71-year-old New Jersey...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) An ominous report identifies 20 bridges nationwide at serious risk of ship collisions, potentially resulting in a collapse like the one that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
A group of engineers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore analyzed the likelihood of...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Former Obama staffer Jon Favreau complained on Wednesday that the Trump administration had detained a Canadian woman who attempted to re-enter the U.S. after her work visa was revoked.
Conveniently unbeknownst to Favreau, his former boss and ex-President Barack Obama also detained and deported Canadian nationals.
Among...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A chemical manufacturing company based in India and three leading employees were charged in federal court in Washington, D.C. in connection to illegally importing precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl.
On Thursday, Vasudha Pharma Chem Limited (VPC) and three of its top executives were charged with multiple...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) According to the most recently available data, there were nearly 50,000 border crime arrests reported statewide in Texas in 2023 by local law enforcement agencies.
Eighty percent of arrests occurred in 20 counties, according to an annual Texas border crime report published by the Texas...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court in Cincinnati heard arguments Wednesday in a legal dispute that pits a suburban Ohio school district's policy on gender pronouns against the free speech rights of classmates who believe there are only two genders.
The lawsuit brought by Parents Defending Education, a national membership...
(Maire Clayton, Headline USA) The IRS whistleblowers who killed Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal were promoted by the Trump administration.
Both agents, Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, were given elevated positions as senior advisers to the Treasury Department secretary, according to The Washington Times.
The two worked on the Hunter Biden tax evasion...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Rep. Brandon Gill, R-TX, has put forward legislation that would ban several of the United States’s main competitors on the world stage, such as China, from buying farmland nationwide.
Gill, 31, is the youngest sitting House Republican and represents Texas’ 26th congressional district. When he was...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US has announced an airstrike in Iraq that it claimed killed the deputy leader of ISIS.
US Central Command said that on March 13, its forces “conducted a precision airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the Global ISIS #2 leader, chief of operations and the...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., suddenly discovered his love for government shutdowns last week—but this was not always the case. It turns out that shutdowns are only permissible when Republicans are in power.
Murphy appeared for an interview on NBC News’s Meet the Press, where host Kristen Welker—credit...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Labor unions representing federal workers are facing another challenge to collective bargaining rights – and even their very existence – in a newly introduced Republican bill meant to prevent American taxpayer dollars from subsidizing union costs.
The Federal Workforce Freedom Act would prohibit federal employees...
(Headline USA) A representative for the estate of actor Gene Hackman is seeking to block the public release of autopsy and investigative reports, especially photographs and police body-camera video, related to the recent deaths of Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa after their partially mummified bodies were discovered at their...